Charlotte's Web Scene Analysis

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The elements of drama work together to produce and emphasis dramatic action and dramatic meaning. Drama is created, organized, and formed by features of role, character, and relationships, situation, voice and movement, space and time, focus, tension, language, ideas and dramatic meaning, mood and atmosphere and symbol (Australian Curriculum and Assessment Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2014). The movie clip I choose to review was Charlotte's Web: Saving the runt http://www.wingclips.com/movie-clips/charlottes-web/saving-the-runt
Both the lighting and music enhance the atmosphere and help set the mood. A good lighting scheme can add to the drama of a scene, and even increase the emotions an audience will feel. The night storm has been given to …show more content…

The impression an audience gets is not only from what the actor says but how it is delivered. When we see Fern yell at her father we get a look at how she is feeling, we can hear the panic, fear and worry in her voice. We can tell she wants to save the pig. She then pauses, this silence creates a dramatic focus, it builds up the intensity of the scene, it shows Ferns fear and worry especially when combined with the cameras close-up on her eyes we can see her fear and worry. The more she fights her father her tempo changes it becomes faster. The change of pace and volume from Fern has a considerable impact on the dialogue, Fern begins to yell and she uses her social standing between her and the pig "The pig couldn't help being born small, could it? If I had been very small at birth, would you have killed me?". The carefully selected use language and the way it is delivered has the audience waiting in anticipation for an outcome. There is also the moment Ferns father picks up Wilbur and he squeals, it’s almost a sense of panic from the pig, it helps to create more of a dramatic meaning leaving the audience to become filled with emotions of worry, and